For weeks, Ziad Abu al-Dahab has been training for gold at an equestrian tournament near Damascus -- in a sport once ...

As rebels closed in on Damascus, Bashar al-Assad, who ruled over Syria with an iron fist for 24 years, used a private jet to spirit away cash, valuables and confidential documents mapping the ...

I grew up in this Syria. When I was a child, I remember, my father scolded my brother for telling his friends that Hafez al-Assad had imprisoned my uncles. When his son Bashar al-Assad took over ...

For years, Ahmed al-Shara was the leader of a rebel group once allied with Al Qaeda that was fighting the rule of President Bashar al-Assad in Syria. After a rebel coalition led by his group ...

Syria says it will form commissions for Assad-era missing persons and transitional justice The two commissions – one to investigate the fate of tens of thousands missing under Bashar al-Assad's ...